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SUMMARY:Best Breakup Ever Book Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Come to a book party that is an experience of celebration for those who are single\, happily coupled\, heartbroken\, recently divorced. Come one come all.\n*Laughter\n*Book Signing\n*Tarot\n*Appetizers\n*Beverages!\n*Self-care experiences \nAbout BBE!\nThis is more then just a book. You are stepping into a warm\, funny\, friendly space where someone is talking about all the aspects of a breakup while making you LAUGH OUTLOUD. Drawing on her 20-plus years as a tarot reader and decade as a life coach Hirschman shares tools\, practices\, and suggestions to help you reflect AND move forward. You’ll get chapters about picking the right and WRONG movies to watch\, songs to listen to\, and TV series to tuck in at night. There’s even letting go rituals to free you from the prickly bonds of a breakup. This book is a perfect combination of levity and expertise and a must read for someone going through this transition. This is THE tool-kit every broken heart needs. \nAbout the Author\nApril Hirschman is a Leadership and Transition Coach\, belly dancer\, tarot reader\, filmmaker\, yoga instructor\, artist\, amateur stand-up comedian\, and one of the 10 Priestesses you should know in the 21st century! She smoked her first vape with Armi¬stead Maupin and put on her makeup with John Cameron Mitchell. She lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/best-breakup-ever-book-launch-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon: Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Jun 10\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nJoin us for a very special early Father’s Day event. Michael Chabon will read from “Pops”\, due out soon in paperback. \n“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani\, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt\, humorous\, insightful\, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood. \nFor the September 2016 issue of GQ\, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon\, then thirteen\, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style\, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season; Chabon Sr.\, whose interest in clothing stops at “thrift-shopping for vintage western shirts or Hermès neckties\,” sat idly by\, staving off yawns and fighting the impulse that the whole thing was a massive waste of time. Despite his own indifference\, however\, what gradually emerged as Chabon ferried his son to and from fashion shows was a deep respect for his son’s passion. The piece quickly became a viral sensation. \nWith the GQ story as its centerpiece\, and featuring six additional essays plus an introduction\, Pops illuminates the meaning\, magic\, and mysteries of fatherhood as only Michael Chabon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-pops-fatherhood-in-pieces/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon: Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special early Father’s Day event. Michael Chabon will read from “Pops”\, due out soon in paperback. \n“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani\, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt\, humorous\, insightful\, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-pops-fatherhood-in-pieces-2/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-2/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Allan Peterson
DESCRIPTION:reading poetry from \nThis Luminous: New and Selected Poems \nfrom Panhandler Books \nFrom the vast complexities of a world in which synesthesia is our natural translator\, Allan Peterson’s poems convey the consistent message that the ordinary isn’t. Selected from books and chapbooks covering almost thirty years of writing\, Peterson’s work draws heavily from landscapes like the Gulf Coast\, the sciences\, history\, and the author’s background in visual arts. Details of perception and observation demonstrate why these reflective works\, often dense with images and intuitive jumps\, have received national and international recognitions. \nBoth poet and visual artist\, Allan Peterson is the author of five previous poetry collections and is a recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the State of Florida. His second book\, All the Lavish in Common\, won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts. His third\, Fragile Acts\, from McSweeney’s\, was a finalist for both The National Book Critics Circle and Oregon Book Awards. \nPraise for Allan Peterson’s Previous Work \n“Peterson is one of our most valuable poet-thinkers and thinker-poets\, a writer who can show us how much is within our grasp and much is beyond it.” — LA Review of Books \n“His observing eye\, as astute as the most finely-honed telephoto lens\, is such that he¹s able to transform even the ordinary into something so exquisite it provokes wonder and awe.” —Mary Jo Bang \n“Like ‘Brazil’s undiscovered caverns of amethyst’\, Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts is a major find.” —John Ashbery \n“He puts music to the tension between the desperate human experience and the cool removal of the cosmos. His poems are refreshingly discrete artifacts—perfected and edgy—raw at the same time. “ —Laura Kasischke \n“Allan Peterson’s meditations on domestic tranquility and ecocatastrophe are so smart that they could actually make you smarter” —Boston Review \n“Soul-poppingly magnetic”—The Rumpus
URL:https://litseen.com/event/allan-peterson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Scanlan / Aug 9—Fog
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kathryn Scanlan for her first book\,Aug 9—Fog. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFifteen years ago\, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book\, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. The diary was falling apart—water-stained and illegible in places—but magnetic to Scanlan nonetheless. \nAfter reading and rereading the diary\, studying and dissecting it\, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention\, cutting\, editing\, arranging\, and rearranging them into the composition that became Aug 9—Fog (she chose the title from a note that was tucked into the diary). “Sure grand out\,” the diarist writes. “That puzzle a humdinger\,” she says\, followed by\, “A letter from Lloyd saying John died the 16th.” An entire state of mourning reveals itself in “2 canned hams.” The result of Scanlan’s collaging is an utterly compelling\, deeply moving meditation on life and death. \nIn Aug 9—Fog\, Scanlan’s spare\, minimalist approach has a maximal emotional effect\, remaining with the reader long after the book ends. It is an unclassifiable work from a visionary young writer and artist—a singular portrait of a life revealed by revision and restraint. \n\nKathryn Scanlan lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in NOON\, Fence\, American Short Fiction\, Tin House\, Caketrain\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications. Author photo by Roxane Hopper. \n\nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Aug 9—Fog\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathryn-scanlan-aug-9-fog/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ryan Jacobs
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Jacobs discusses his new book\, The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery\, Mayhem and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus. \nAbout The Truffle Underground \nBeneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables\, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft\, secrecy\, sabotage\, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buyers and even knowledgeable experts are duped by liars and counterfeits. \nDeeply reported and elegantly written\, this page-turning exposé documents the dark\, sometimes deadly crimes at each level of the truffle’s path from ground to plate\, making sense of an industry that traffics in scarcity\, seduction\, and cash. Through it all\, a question lingers: What\, other than money\, draws people to these dirt-covered jewels? \nPraise for The Truffle Underground \n“In elegant\, mesmerizing prose\, Ryan Jacobs has delivered a forest-to-table page-turner from the outer limits of our foodie culture\, a place where colorful farmers\, serial dog murderers and famous chefs grapple over a crudely foraged fungus that’s traded in parking lots and bars\, like heroin. The Truffle Underground is an eye-opener for anyone who’s picked up a fork.”—Steve Fainaru\, New York Times bestselling author of League of Denial and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter \n“The Truffle Underground is a fascinating\, genre-blending romp. It’s a business book\, a mystery\, a science lesson\, and a love story that’s as seductive as the buttery fungus at the heart of it all.”—Derek Thompson\, national bestselling author of Hit Makers and staff writer at The Atlantic \n“Investigative journalist and first-time author Jacobs does a remarkable job reporting from the front lines of the truffle industry\, bringing to vivid life French black-truffle farmers\, Italian white-truffle foragers\, and their marvelously well-trained dogs.”—Booklist (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ryan-jacobs/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An evening with Ishmael Reed
DESCRIPTION:Time is a pendulum. \n  \n Not a river.  \n  \n More akin to what goes around comes around. \n  \n–Ishmael Reed\, Mumbo Jumbo \n  \nIshmael Reed has asked Theo Konrad Auer to organize a poetry reading with him\, and also to make it good. \nAuer has carefully thought about it and decided to have a group reading rather than just Reed and himself. Auer aims toward addressing the culture and decontextualizing history. With that in mind\, he has approached several leading lights from the fervent literary community\, those being Ishmael Reed\, Maw Shein Win\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Paul Corman- Roberts\, and some of Ishmael’s students. Among them\, there is a Guggenheim fellow\, a couple of laureates\, an American Book award winner and a guy who helped start the Art Murmur. \nThis group of people\, younger writers\, elders and those who are firmly mid-career\, hope to serve as an informal survey of this place and time. \nPro Arts & COMMONS is honored to co-host the group of intellectuals with Kalahati Projects. The poetry reading is on Wednesday\, June 12\, 7- 9 PM. It’s free and open to public. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-ishmael-reed/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:William E. Jones / I'm Open to Anything
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts William E. Jones for his debut novel I’m Open to Anything\, out now from We Heard You Like Books. More information to come soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nA perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel\, William E. Jones’s I’m Open to Anything explores bohemian Southern California of the late 1980s and early 90s\, before gentrification ruined everything. The book’s narrator flees a crumbling industrial wasteland in the Midwest and finds himself in sunny Los Angeles without a car\, working in a neighborhood video store and spending many hours watching films. He explores his adopted city and befriends a number of men\, most of them immigrants\, who teach him the finer points of sex. He acquires the skill of fisting\, giving his partners intense pleasure\, and at the same time hearing the stories of their lives. They too have fled their hometowns: one to escape torture at the hands of a Salvadoran death squad; another to study anthropology after years of wandering and religious questioning. \nAlternating between explicit scenes of kinky sex and intimate conversations about matters of life and death\, I’m Open to Anything is a porno novel of rare ambition and humor. The book recalls Olympia Press’s heyday\, when authors made quick money churning out dirty books\, but couldn’t hide the intellectual obsessions that made them writers in the first place. \n\nWilliam E. Jones’s previous book\, True Homosexual Experiences (also published by We Heard You Like Books)\, a biography of Straight to Hell’s iconoclastic editor Boyd McDonald\, celebrates the frank\, raunchy language of the first queer ’zine. Jones brings the same unsparing and profane attitude to I’m Open to Anything\, his debut novel. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of I’m Open to Anything\, order below and put your request in the comments field. For signed copies ofTrue Homosexual Experiences\, order here and sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-e-jones-im-open-to-anything/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alix Ohlin
DESCRIPTION:Alix Ohlin discusses her new novel\, Dual Citizens. \nPraise for Dual Citizens \n“Ohlin’s story of sisters wraps its tendrils deep as any family. Dual Citizens leads a reader through landscapes of compassion and crisis in this deeply felt\, iridescent novel of the spells and surprises a sibling creates.”—Samantha Hunt\, author of The Dark Dark \n“For long-time admirers of Alix Ohlin’s fiction\, the psychological complexity and keen observations in this novel will come as no surprise. In Dual Citizens\, Ohlin examines the conflicting desires of two sisters from Montreal with a riveting precision reminiscent of fellow Montreal native Mavis Gallant. However\, unlike Gallant’s Montreal girls\, Ohlin’s are not of a generation ‘trained to be patient’ but to follow their ambitions. A lifelong witness to one’s shifting longings\, this wise and luminous novel shows\, is a sibling.”—Idra Novey\, author of Those Who Knew \n“This novel sneaks up on you the way life does—full of chance and yearning. It’s a precise\, subtle\, sad and graceful story about how we care for each other\, and how we try to\, and how we fail.”—Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror \nAbout Dual Citizens \nLark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious\, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother\, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences. As they grow up\, Lark excels at school and Robin becomes an extraordinary pianist. At seventeen\, Lark flees to America to attend college\, where she finds her calling in documentary films\, and her sister soon joins her. \nLater\, in New York City\, they find themselves tested: Lark struggles with self-doubt\, and Robin chafes against the demands of Juilliard. Under pressure\, their bond grows strained and ultimately is broken\, and their paths abruptly diverge. Years later\, Lark’s life is in tatters and Robin’s is wilder than ever. As Lark tries to take charge of her destiny\, she discovers that despite the difficulties of their relationship\, there is only one person she can truly rely on: her sister. \nIn this gripping\, unforgettable novel about art\, ambition\, sisterhood\, motherhood\, and self-knowledge\, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complicated lives of two indelible women. Dazzlingly insightful and beautifully crafted\, Dual Citizens captures the unique language of sisters and makes visible the imperceptible strings that bind us to the ones we love for good.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alix-ohlin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Erik Davis
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nHigh Weirdness: Drugs\, Esoterica\, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies \nfrom MIT Press \nA study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick\, Terence McKenna\, and Robert Anton Wilson\, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought\, dreamed\, and experienced reality—but how did their writings reflect\, as well as shape\, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? \nIn High Weirdness\, Erik Davis—America’s leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital\, iconoclastic thinkers\, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America’s West Coast at a time of radical technological\, political\, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality. \nErik Davis is an American journalist\, critic\, podcaster\, counter-public intellectual whose writings have run the gamut from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is the author of Techgnosis: Myth\, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information\, The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape\, and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica. \nVisit: http://techgnosis.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erik-davis/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Louise Aronson
DESCRIPTION:Louise Aronson\n\n\n\n\npresents Elderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, Reimagining Life\, an essential\, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life. \n“In the latter years there are possibilities for joy\, transcendence\, and meaning\, but also for just the opposite. Aronson writes like a memoirist while giving us scientific insight\, philosophical wisdom\, and wise counsel for a journey and destination we all share. Elderhood is a lovely and thoughtful exploration of this voyage.”–Abraham Verghese \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Elderhood by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, June 13\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more than 5\,000 years\, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood\, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before\, we’ve made old age into a disease\, a condition to be dreaded\, denigrated\, neglected\, and denied. \nReminiscent of Oliver Sacks\, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients\, and draws from history\, science\, literature\, popular culture\, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy–a vision full of joy\, wonder\, frustration\, outrage\, and hope about aging\, medicine\, and humanity itself. \nElderhood is for anyone who is\, in the author’s own words\, “an aging\, i.e.\, still-breathing human being.” \nLouise Aronson\, MD\, is the author of the story collection A History of the Present Illness and a geriatrician\, educator\, and professor of medicine at UCSF\, where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, Dr. Aronson has received numerous awards for her medical work\, teaching\, educational research\, and writing. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and four Pushcart nominations\, her articles and stories have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, Lancet\, and Bellevue Literary Review. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-aronson-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ted Chiang and Robin Sloan
DESCRIPTION:Ted Chiang discusses his new story collection\, Exhalation\, with Robin Sloan. \nPraise for Ted Chiang \n“Ted Chiang’s stories are lean\, relentless\, and incandescent.”—Colson Whitehead\, author of The Underground Railroad \n“Ted Chiang writes with such a matter-of-fact grace and visionary power that one simply takes on faith that his worlds and his characters exist\, whether they are human or robot or parrot; he is the rare author who makes me feel\, also\, that he believes in his readers\, in our integrity and our imagination.”—Karen Russell\, author of Orange World \n“Ted Chiang has no contemporary peers when it comes to the short story form. His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Carver\, Poe\, Borges\, and Kafka. Every story is a universe. Every story is a diamond. You will inhale Exhalation in a single\, stunned sitting\, because true genius doesn’t come along nearly as often as advertised. This is the real thing.”—Blake Crouch\, author of Dark Matter \n“From Ted Chiang’s singular mind comes another innovative and mind-bending collection of short stories. With boundless empathy\, curiosity\, and wisdom\, Chiang asks all the important questions that come with being human. Reading Exhalationis like standing outside on a clear\, starry night. Chiang’s writing does what good writing should: make the universe feel both vast and small at the same time.”—Rachel Khong\, author of Goodbye\, Vitamin \nAbout Exhalation \nFrom an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story “The Story of Your Life” was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival)\, the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original\, humane\, and already celebrated short stories \nThis much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang\, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate\,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary “Exhalation\,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people\, but for all of reality. And in “The Lifecycle of Software Objects\,” a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years\, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: “Omphalos” and “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom.” \nIn this fantastical and elegant collection\, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth–What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?–and ones that no one else has even imagined. And\, each in its own way\, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty\, meaning\, and compassion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ted-chiang-and-robin-sloan/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Adam David Miller
DESCRIPTION:Adam David Miller reads his poems\,\nfollowed by an interview and discussion \nAdam David Miller has worked in northern California for four decades as a teacher\, writer\, poet\, editor\, publisher\, and radio and television producer. He has won many awards\, including the Bay Area Writing Project’s Teachers as Writers Lifetime Achievement Award. Elise Peeples will be joining her husband for this presentation. \nA free chapbook is available at Berkeley Public Library branches. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-adam-david-miller/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bloomsday with Thomas Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Bloomsday with Thomas Lynch\nreading from Chapter Ten of James Joyce’s Ulysses recalling Dublin on June 16\, 1904 . \nJoin us for Guinness\, Irish soda bread and cheer! \nSunday\, June 16\, 2019 – 9:45am\nEvent address:\n2904 College Avenue\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bloomsday-with-thomas-lynch/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michael McClure and Juvenal Acosta
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this very special reading: Michael McClure in translation\, with Juvenal Acosta. Michael will read from new and selected work. Spanish translations will be read by Juvenal. \nTwo books in Spanish\, Agnosia and Neuronas del Espíritu available\, along with copies of Michael’s latest\, Persian Pony and books by Juvenal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mcclure-and-juvenal-acosta/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 telegraph avenue\, Berkeley\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – featured readers followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-10/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong and Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:Ocean Vuong discusses his new novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous with Rebecca Solnit. \nPraise for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous \n“A bruised\, breathtaking love letter never meant to be sent. A powerful testimony to magic and loss. A marvel.” —Marlon James\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous will be described — rightly—as luminous\, shattering\, urgent\, necessary. But the word I keep circling back to is raw: that’s how powerful the emotions here are\, and how you’ll feel after reading it – scoured down to bone. With a poet’s precision\, Ocean Vuong examines whether putting words to one’s experience can bridge wounds that span generations\, and whether it’s ever possible to be truly heard by those we love most.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere \n“This book—gorgeous is right there in the title—finds incredible\, aching beauty in the deep observation of love in many forms. Ocean Vuong’s debut novel contains all the power of his poetry\, and I finished the book knowing that we are seeing only the very beginning of his truly magnificent talent.” —Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers \n“Ocean Vuong runs up against the limits of language—this book is addressed to a mother who cannot read it—and expands our sense of what literature can make visible\, thinkable\, felt across borders and generations and genres. This is a courageous\, embodied inquiry into the tangle of colonial and personal histories. It is also a gorgeous argument for astonishment over irony—for the transformative possibilities of love.” —Ben Lerner\, author of Leaving the Atocha Stationand 10:04 \n“One is not often given the chance to apply words like “brilliant” and “remarkable” to any novels\, certainly not first novels.  Thank you\, Ocean Vuong\, for this brilliant and remarkable first novel.” —Michael Cunningham\, author of The Hours \nAbout On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous \nOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker\, Little Dog\, is in his late twenties\, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known\, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son\, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race\, class\, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment\, immersed as we are in addiction\, violence\, and trauma\, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. \nWith stunning urgency and grace\, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds\, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive\, and how to make of it a kind of joy\, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ocean-vuong-and-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
DESCRIPTION:with David Trinidad\, Amy Gerstler\, D.A. Powell\, Kevin Killian\, Dodie Bellamy\, Randall Mann\, and Roberto Bedoya \ncelebrating the release of \nPunk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith \nby Ed Smith\, Edited by David Trinidad \npublished by Turtle Point Press \nIn Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World\, David Trinidad brings together a comprehensive selection of Ed Smith’s work: his published books; unpublished poems; excerpts from his extensive notebooks; photos and ephemera; and his timely “cry for civilization\,” “Return to Lesbos”: put down that gun / stop electing Presidents. \nEd Smith blazed onto the Los Angeles poetry scene in the early 1980s from out of the hardcore punk scene. The charismatic\, nerdy young man hit home with his funny/scary off- the- cuff- sounding poems\, like “Fishing”: This is a good line. / This is a bad line. This is a fishing line. \nEd’s vibrant “gang” of writer and artist friends― among them Amy Gerstler\, Dennis Cooper\, Bob Flanagan\, Mike Kelley\, and David Trinidad― congregated at Beyond Baroque in Venice\, on LA’s west side. They read and partied and per-formed together\, and shared and published each others’ work. \nEd was more than bright and versatile: he worked as a math tutor\, an animator\, and a typesetter. In the mid- 1990s\, he fell in love with Japanese artist Mio Shirai; they married and moved to New York City. Despite productive years and joyful times\, Ed was plagued by mood disorders and drug problems\, and at the age of forty- eight\, he took his own life. \nEd Smith’s poems speak to living in an increasingly dehumanizing consumer society and corrupt political system. This “punk Dorothy Parker” is more relevant than ever for our ADD\, technology- distracted times \nEd Smith (1957–2005) was a poet involved in the punk and alternative arts scenes in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. His books were Fantasyworld (1983) and Tim’s Bunnies (1988). His poems appeared in Rolling Stone\, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter\, and other publications. Smith also worked as an animator on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues. \nDavid Trinidad is the author of more than twenty books of poetry\, collabora-tions\, and edited volumes. These include Swinging on a Star (2017)\, Notes on a Past Life (2016)\, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011)\, and Plasticville (2000)\, finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Trinidad is editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (2011)\, which won a Lambda Literary Award. He is a professor of poetry in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College\, Chicago. \nCritical Praise For Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: \n“In the very early ’80s Ed was intimidatingly skinny and gorgeous and as reckless and charismatic as that guy in The Libertines who got caught doing coke with Kate Moss\, but very\, very talented and massively intelligent\, and even when he was a little too wild\, he was always so kind and heartbreakingly sweet and smart. Saying he was our Rimbaud is way too lazy\, but there was that. I thought of him as LA’s John Wieners. Ed’s poetry has Wieners’s deep melancholy and low-key\, note-perfect lyricism\, mixed with Ed’s strange\, bright ideas and his dead-pan\, startling sense of humor. I’m one of the many people who misses his poetry a lot.” ―Dennis Cooper \n“Years ago my wife slept with Ed Smith and wrote him into her novel; we goggled\, bemused by his ubiquity. It was a time when Ed was everywhere\, or so it seemed\, and his energy and taste for the zany and the outrageous fit right in with what we in San Francisco appreciated most about the heroic LA artists―Bob Flanagan\, Mike Kelley\, Amy Gerstler\, Dennis Cooper\, so many more. The present anthology is not only the best of Ed’s writing but contains in his notebooks the single greatest account of the genius brewing in the Southland at that moment. Hats off to David Trinidad for bringing it all back home―his exquisite care in selecting and contextualizing is the greatest gift he could have given his late friend.” ―Kevin Killian \n“Sappho invented civilization\, and Ed Smith made it punk.”―Tony Trigilio
URL:https://litseen.com/event/punk-rock-is-cool-for-the-end-of-the-world-poems-and-notebooks-of-ed-smith/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alex Espinoza / Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alex Espinoza for his new bookCruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. With him in conversation is the one and only Carla Trujillo! Please join us! \nAcclaimed author Alex Espinoza takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground\, to reveal the timeless art of cruising. Combining historical research and oral history with his own personal experience\, Espinoza examines the political and cultural forces behind this radical pastime. From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England\, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr\, Oscar Wilde to George Michael\, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale — one in which men of all races and classes interact\, even in the shadow of repressive governments. \nIn Uganda and Russia\, we meet activists for whom cruising can be a matter of life and death; while in the West he shows how cruising circumvents the inequalities and abuses of power that plague heterosexual encounters. Ultimately\, Espinoza illustrates how cruising functions as a powerful rebuke to patriarchy and capitalism — unless you are cruising the department store restroom\, of course. \n\n“Alex Espinoza’s much-anticipated book takes readers on a unique ‘cruise’ through places of public gay-sex connections\, from early times to today’s apps and sites; and the result is as lively and entertaining as a boldly intimate\, and wonderfully written\, memoir.” – John Rechy \n“Espinoza’s painstakingly documented love letter to cruising is a rare achievement. Not only does he excavate an oft-hidden and -policed queer history\, but he also topples the myth that LGBTQ progress conforms to a single\, ‘straight’ narrative. In a culture that often flattens queer stories to fit assimilationist standards\, Espinoza’s book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers\, thinkers\, and activists. Reading these accounts\, I felt myself drawn into a past both wonderful and strange\, a world I hope we will continue to celebrate and preserve.” – Garrard Conley \n“Against all they have tried to do to bury our revolutionary past\, Alex Espinoza brings it to life in a work that is equal parts secrets shared in confidence\, sweeping historical account\, and learned analysis. Against all the neutering of our social movements and the treacly lure of assimilation\, Espinoza’s fast-paced\, compelling narrative shows readers the radical community of struggle\, contact and solace from which we came\, and to which we belong still.” – Jordy Rosenberg \n\nAlex Espinoza is the author of the novels The Five Acts of Diego Leónand Still Water Saints\, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times Magazine\, NPR\, Salon\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. His awards include a 2014 Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2014 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Five Acts of Diego León. He lives in Los Angeles. \n  \nCarla Trujillo was born in New Mexico and received a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. Her first novel\, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press\, 2003)\, received the Miguel Mármol Prize for best first work of fiction by a Latino/a writer\, the Latino Book Award for fiction\, and the Paterson Fiction Prize. It was a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award\, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year\, and was an honorable mention for the Gustavas Myers Book Award. What Night Brings was one of three finalists for the University of Washington’s “common book” for 2009 . Carla is the editor of Living Chicana Theory (1998) and Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991)\, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Out/Write Vanguard Award. The anthologies and the novel are widely used in college and high school classrooms. Carla has also written various articles on identity and higher education. She is a founding member Macondo Writers Workshop. In addition to Macondo\, she has taught at Lambda Literary Foundation’s Emerging Writers Retreat\, U.C. Berkeley\, Mills College\, and San Francisco State University. Carla lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Alex’s books\, order here and include your request in the comments field; to request a signed copy of any of Carla’s books\, order here and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-espinoza-cruising-an-intimate-history-of-a-radical-pastime/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stephen Markley / Ohio
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith hosts Stephen Markley for Ohio. Join us! \nSince the turn of the century\, a generation has come of age knowing only war\, recession\, political gridlock\, racial hostility\, and a simmering fear of environmental calamity. In the country’s forgotten pockets\, where industry long ago fled\, where foreclosures\, Walmarts\, and opiates riddle the land\, death rates for rural whites have skyrocketed\, fueled by suicide\, addiction and a rampant sense of marginalization and disillusionment. This is the world the characters in Stephen Markley’s Ohio inherit. This is New Canaan. \nOn one fateful summer night in 2013\, four former classmates converge on the rust belt town where they grew up\, each of them with a mission\, all of them haunted by regrets\, secrets\, lost loves. There’s Bill Ashcraft\, an alcoholic\, drug-abusing activist\, whose fruitless ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to New Orleans\, and now back to “The Cane” with a mysterious package strapped to the underside of his truck; Stacey Moore\, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting the mother of her former lover; Dan Eaton\, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq\, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart he’s tried to forget; and the beautiful\, fragile Tina Ross\, whose rendezvous with the captain of the football team triggers the novel’s shocking climax. \nAt once a murder mystery and a social critique\, Ohio ingeniously captures the fractured zeitgeist of a nation through the viewfinder of an embattled Midwestern town and offers a prescient vision for America at the dawn of a turbulent new age. \n\n“Markley [does] some extraordinary things with the structure of the book… Casual details suddenly take on new surprising significance. There’s real pleasure in this hopscotching narrative: with each new point of view\, a clearer sense of the hidden story emerges as the reader slowly pieces together some shocking revelations… The most moving parts of the book are those that step back and let the events and the actions speak for themselves\, as when one character (the shy bookish one from high school) recalls his first tours in Afghanistan. The beautifully precise details are all the more vivid for their lack of accompanying commentary. The real core of this earnestly ambitious debut lies not in its sweeping statements but in its smaller moments\, in its respectful and bighearted renderings of damaged and thwarted lives. It’s the human scale that most descriptively reveals the truth about the world we’re living in.” – Dan Chaon\, New York Times Book Review \n“Ohio isn’t just a remarkable debut novel\, it’s a wild\, angry and devastating masterpiece of a book. Markley’s debut is a sprawling\, beautiful novel that explores the aftermath of the Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, and a powerful look at the tenuous bonds that hold people together at their best and at their worst. [Ohio] is intricately constructed\, with gorgeous\, fiery writing that pulls the reader in and never lets go.”– NPR \n\nStephen Markley is an author\, screenwriter\, and journalist. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop\, Markley’s previous books include the novel Ohio\, the memoir Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote\, Sold\, and Published This Very Book\, and the travelogue Tales of Iceland. He lives in Los Angeles. \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited and not guaranteed; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Ohio\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephen-markley-ohio/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcus Thompson on Kevin Durant
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Jun 20\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nWe are proud to present bestselling author of Golden\, Marcus Thompson. He joins us to read from and to sign copies of his new book\, KD: Kevin Durant’s Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest. \nJoin us on Thursday June 20th at 7pm.Golden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson delivers the definitive biography of one of the most extraordinary basketball players in NBA history—Kevin Durant. As a sports columnist for The Athletic Bay Area\, and longtime beat reporter covering the Golden State Warriors\, Marcus Thompson is perfectly positioned to trace Durant’s inspirational journey. KD follows Durant’s underdog story from his childhood spent in poverty outside DC; to his rise playing on AAU teams with future NBA players; to becoming a star and hometown hero for the Oklahoma Thunder; to his controversial decision to play for the NBA rival Golden State Warriors; to his growth from prodigy into a man\, in the first true inside account of this superstar player. KD is a powerful\, moving biography of a modern-day legend and an essential read for all sports fans—or anyone who wants to know: what’s it like to shoot for greatness? \nMarcus Thompson II is a lead columnist at The Athletic\, covering the Golden State Warriors\, San Francisco 49ers and Giants\, and the Oakland Raiders and A’s. He was previously a sportswriter at the San Jose Mercury News and covered the Warriors exclusively as a beat writer for ten seasons. He lives with his wife\, Dawn\, and daughter\, Sharon\, in Oakland\, California. He is the author of the national bestseller Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry and KD: Kevin Durant’s Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcus-thompson-on-kevin-durant/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Megan Griswold
DESCRIPTION:Megan Griswold joins us to discuss her new book\, The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies.\n \nPraise for The Book of Help \n“Griswold’s vulnerability and deeply honest writing will captivate and bolster readers in their own search for improvement.”\n–Publishers Weekly \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n\n“The Book of Help is a bright\, self-effacing\, celebratory\, gut-wrenching and hilarious chronicle of one woman’s attempt to heal both herself and the parts of the world she intersects. It reminds us\, in these dizzyingly corrupted times\, of the redemption to be found in good friends\, good dogs\, and good therapy\, and urges us to make the world we want to live in. This book is an all-night sleepover ouija board/tarot card/magic eight ball session of delight.\n–Pam Houston\, author of Deep Creek  \n\nAbout The Book of Help \nThe Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love\, connection\, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies\, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents –– from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil\, to academia\, the Ivy League\, and the study of Eastern medicine. \nMegan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced the offerings of New Age California culture ––  at seven she asked Santa for her first mantra and by twelve she was taking weekend workshops on personal growth. But later\, when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he’s landed in jail\, Megan must accept that her many certificates\, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she’d once imagined them to be\, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest\, most growth-insisting journey of her life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-griswold/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime PRIDE
DESCRIPTION:Coming up: InsideStorytime PRIDE\, featuring Nona Caspers (The Fifth Woman)\, Vernon Keeve III (Southern Migrant Mixtape)\, Eddie Jen\, and others\, will occur at Manny’s\, 3092 16th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday June 20th\, 7.30-9.30 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-pride/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190620T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190620T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T140359
CREATED:20190502T092559Z
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SUMMARY:Nicole Dennis-Benn
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Dennis-Benn\, author of Here Comes the Sun\, discusses her new novel\, Patsy. \nPraise for Patsy \n“Nicole Dennis-Benn is an exquisite writer who paints scenes with words so vivid you might as well be walking through it as a character\, not a reader. In Patsy\, she addresses motherhood\, sexuality\, racism\, and colorism; turning her prodigious talents to the timely story of an undocumented immigrant straddling two worlds while learning that love isn’t a choice\, but the beat in one’s blood.” – JODI PICOULT\, New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things \n“A stunningly powerful inter-generational novel about the price―the ransom really― women must pay to choose themselves\, their lives\, their value\, their humanity. Frank\, funny\, salty\, heartbreaking\, full of love\, Dennis-Benn is a map-maker to those places in the heart held so closely\, the holder may not know even they’re there.” – ALEXANDER CHEE\,author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Beautiful\, shattering\, and deeply affecting. Patsy’s story ultimately makes for a novel that is destined to endure.” – CHIGOZIE OBIOMA\, author of The Fishermen \n“An aching meditation on motherhood\, sacrifice\, and what it means to look truth in the face in order to fully become oneself. A beautiful book\, as heartbreaking as it is restorative.” – CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“A novel that splits at the seams with yearning\, elegantly written and deeply felt. Dennis-Benn leads the reader through Patsy’s life with empathy and grace.” – ESME WEIJUN WANG\, author of The Collected Schizophrenias \nAbout Patsy \nBeating with the pulse of a long-witheld confession\, Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to choose herself first–not to give a better life to her family back home. Patsy leaves Tru behind in a defiant act of self-preservation\, hoping for a new start where she can be\, and love\, whomever she wants. But when Patsy arrives in Brooklyn\, America is not as Cicely’s treasured letters described; to survive as an undocumented immigrant\, she is forced to work as a bathroom attendant and nanny. Meanwhile\, Tru builds a faltering relationship with her father back in Jamaica\, grappling with her own questions of identity and sexuality\, and trying desperately to empathize with her mother’s decision. \nExpertly evoking the jittery streets of New York and the languid rhythms of Jamaica\, Patsy weaves between the lives of Patsy and Tru in vignettes spanning more than a decade as mother and daughter ultimately find a way back to one another. \nAs with her masterful debut\, Here Comes the Sun\, Nicole Dennis-Benn once again charts the geography of a hidden world–that of a paradise lost\, swirling with the echoes of lilting patois\, in which one woman fights to discover her sense of self in a world that tries to define her. Passionate\, moving\, and fiercely urgent\, Patsy is a prismatic depiction of immigration and womanhood\, and the lasting threads of love stretching across years and oceans. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-dennis-benn/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190622T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190622T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T140359
CREATED:20190502T081109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T081109Z
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SUMMARY:Undocumented Consequences: Life on Both Sides of the Border
DESCRIPTION:Undocumented Consequences: Life on Both Sides of the Border\nSaturday\, June 22\, 2019\, Doors 1:00 p.m. Eveny begins 1:30 p.m.\, Woman’s Building\, 3543 18th St #8\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Duke University Press\, Harvard University Press\, and The Woman’s Building present \nBeth C. Caldwell and Ana Raquel Minian \n \nThis event will be held at: \nWoman’s Building\, 3543 18th St #8\, San Francisco\, CA 94110 \nAdmission is Free\, seating limited\, reservations required. \nE-mail: staff@citylights.com to inquire about seating availability. \nThis event will explore the history of undocumented migration from Mexico to the United States\, and the consequences of the current save of mass deportation from the U.S. to Mexico. Beth C. Caldwell and Ana Raquel Minian are two exceptional scholars working in the field. If you are an activist\, policy maker\, or simply interested in the current situation regarding migration\, this event promises to cover important ground. There will be an open discussion after the lectures and panel talk. \nBeth C. Caldwell is Professor of Legal Analysis\, Writing\, and Skills at Southwestern Law School and was formerly an attorney in the Los Angeles County Office of the Public Defender. She is the author of Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexicopublished by Duke University Press. \nAna Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. She is the author of Undocumented Lives:The Untold Story of Mexican Migration published by Harvard University Press. \n \nabout Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico \nWhen Gina was deported to Tijuana\, Mexico\, in 2011\, she left behind her parents\, siblings\, and children\, all of whom are U.S. citizens. Despite having once had a green card\, Gina was removed from the only country she had ever known. In Deported Americans legal scholar and former public defender Beth C. Caldwell tells Gina’s story alongside those of dozens of other Dreamers\, who are among the hundreds of thousands who have been deported to Mexico in recent years. Many of them had lawful status\, held green cards\, or served in the U.S. military. Now\, they have been banished\, many with no hope of lawfully returning. Having interviewed over one hundred deportees and their families\, Caldwell traces deportation’s long-term consequences—such as depression\, drug use\, and homelessness—on both sides of the border. Showing how U.S. deportation law systematically fails to protect the rights of immigrants and their families\, Caldwell challenges traditional notions of what it means to be an American and recommends legislative and judicial reforms to mitigate the injustices suffered by the millions of U.S. citizens affected by deportation. \nabout Undocumented Lives:The Untold Story of Mexican Migration \nIn the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. But as U.S. authorities pursued more aggressive anti-immigrant measures\, migrants found themselves caught between the economic interests of competing governments. The fruits of their labor were needed in both places\, and yet neither country made them feel welcome. Ana Raquel Minian explores this unique chapter in the history of Mexican migration. Undocumented Lives draws on private letters\, songs\, and oral testimony to recreate the experience of circular migration\, which reshaped communities in the United States and Mexico. While migrants could earn for themselves and their families in the U.S.\, they needed to return to Mexico to reconnect with their homes periodically. Despite crossing the border many times\, they managed to belong to communities on both sides of it. Ironically\, the U.S. immigration crackdown of the mid-1980s disrupted these flows\, forcing many migrants to remain north of the border permanently for fear of not being able to return to work. For them\, the United States became known as the jaula de oro—the cage of gold. Undocumented Lives tells the story of Mexicans who have been used and abused by the broader economic and political policies of Mexico and the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/undocumented-consequences-life-on-both-sides-of-the-border/
LOCATION:Woman’s Building\, 3543 18th St #8\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190622T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190622T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T140359
CREATED:20190502T092713Z
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SUMMARY:J Dianne Dotson
DESCRIPTION:J. Dianne Dotson joins us to discuss the second book in her Questrison Saga\, Ephemeris. \n\nAbout Ephemeris\n \nVisions of doom. A growing evil. A new hero emerges as old alliances unravel. \nAn epic science fiction and fantasy tale with a rich array of characters and settings\, Ephemeris: The Questrison Saga: Book Two is the sequel to Heliopause: The Questrison Saga: Book One. \nPlucked from space and raised in a star-city of androids\, impetuous Galla-Deia looks human but is not. Chosen to stop the dual threats of a galactic natural disaster and a malevolent alien entity\, she must grow as a commander and gain the trust of both humans and non-humans alike. Unknown to her\, the entity draws zealots to its cause\, destabilizing interstellar order\, and threatening all life in the galaxy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/j-dianne-dotson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190623T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T140359
CREATED:20190502T001319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T001354Z
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190625T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190625T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T140359
CREATED:20190501T223659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T223659Z
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about: \n“Tristana” de Benito Perez Galdos \n(author will not be present) \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-10/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190625T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190625T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T140359
CREATED:20190502T001926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T001926Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel DeWoskin / Banshee
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Rachel DeWoskin for her new novel\, Banshee. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nA former pleaser\, newly enraged poet/professor Samantha Baxter burns her polite life to the ground. \nBy turns heart-wrenching\, uncomfortable\, and hilarious\,Banshee explores the internal monologue and actions of a woman who\, upon being diagnosed with cancer\, tumbles head-first into a midlife crisis and decides to be unapologetic about it. Banshee is a critical addition to the feminist canon\, giving the reader a dramatized glimpse into what happens when women step outside of society’s rules and expectations as wives\, mothers\, and working professionals — and instead choose to behave the way men do on a day-to-day basis. \n\nRachel DeWoskin is the author of six books: Blind\, Big Girl Small\, Foreign Babes in Beijing\, Repeat After Me\, Someday We Will Fly\, and Banshee\, which is forthcoming from Dottir Press in June 2019. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker\, Vanity Fair\, The Sunday Times Magazine of London\, Teachers and Writers\, and numerous anthologies. She spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera\, which became the basis for her memoir. DeWoskin is on the core fiction faculty at the University of Chicago\, and is an affiliated faculty member of the Centers for East Asian Studies and Jewish Studies. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Rachel’s books\, order here and include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-dewoskin-banshee/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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